Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”
by ternaryoperator on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:58AM
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> Then he found out she got engaged, and he made the rest of the song super difficult so she could never play it.
It is very unlikely that this story is anything more than a fanciful tale: The dedicatee of the piece is unknown; the work was found in papers long after Beethoven's death and was unknown before that. So, the prospect of there being someone who was told the story and wrote it down, even though it's recorded nowhere is close to nil. See the Wikipedia article for more details.
Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”
by codeflo on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:20AM
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Speculation is fun, if you’re aware that you’re not doing science.
Another fun theory I’ve read is that the piece was called “Für X” for different values of X at different times.
According to this theory, Beethoven intentionally didn’t publish it so that he could continue to use the same piece to impress different women, “Look what I wrote for you”.
Efficient.
Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”
by lupire on Saturday May 28, 2022 @08:07AM
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The Beautiful South, Song For Whoever: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-q_gAM1BXQ
Bo Burnham, Repeat Stuff: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9c0UeYhFc
Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy”
by gattilorenz on Saturday May 28, 2022 @03:48AM
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I'm not sure there's enough evidence for this theory, but it does sound amusing
Then he found out she got engaged, and he made the rest of the song super difficult so she could never play it.
You can listen to the song and hear when his heart breaks: https://youtu.be/CQIDLhBJ2y4